Your leftovers for charity
To celebrate delivering over 10 million meals to those in need, food rescue charity OzHarvest is calling out for Australia's favourite leftover recipes for its inaugural cookbook.
The cookbook, Ten Millions Meals, encourages everyday Aussies to send in their favourite recipes for using leftovers, but will also feature recipes created by chefs like Maggie Beer, Matt Moran and Neil Perry.
Maggie Beer - who is a big supporter of OzHarvest and a lover of recreating leftover meals - says a recipe book like this not only encourages more Australian's to cook at home, but also helps to save thousands of tonnes of leftover food from ending up as landfill.
"There's so much that can be done with leftover ingredients from your fridge! A leftover chook can be used to make wonderful tasty sandwiches and don't waste the carcass; add some vegetables and make a chicken stock for a soup or to stir through your next risotto," she says.
Last month the charity picked up its ten millionth meal from Urban Meats in Marrickville, Sydney, a wholesale supplier of organic and bio-dynamic meat and poultry to the food industry.
Each week, owner Tim Elwin supplies OzHarvest with fresh meat which then gets delivered to the charities it supports over Sydney.
"We are incredibly proud to be the supplier of OzHarvest's ten millionth meal. It's great to know we are not only helping the hungry all over Sydney but also stopping good food from going to waste," he says.
"I'm also contributing to the cookbook - I have some great leftover roast beef recipes!"
Recipes should be no more than 350 words including title,
ingredients and method; measurements should be in metric measure and
also include how many the recipe serves.
Ten Million Meals is due to be released in mid-2012. Recipes can be sent to tenmillionmeals@ozharvest.org by 19 December.
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